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  • Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.

  • I feel like the only thing that I can do, and I've been fired from enough jobs, that I'm pretty confident in saying this, the only thing that I can do, even a little bit better than most people, is create that sort of that context with humor. And that's my way of not being helpless and not being hopeless.

    Jobs   People   Littles  
    Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.
  • The mind is sicker than the sick body; in contemplation of its sufferings it becomes hopeless. [Lat., Corpore sed mens est aegro magis aegra; malique In circumspectu stat sine fine sui.]

    Sick   Mind   Suffering  
  • I'm in a situation with this girl that's as hopeless as overthrowing the Bush administration.

  • The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind a more touching picture of unavailing misery and ruin, and hopeless chaos, than the plug hat that has endeavored to keep sober and maintain self-respect while its owner was drunk.

    Self   Drunk   Touching  
  • Perhaps the greatest magic of the human spirit is the ability to laugh, at ourselves, at each other, and at our sometimes hopeless situation. Laughter normalized our lives

  • And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

    God   War   Ambition  
    C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The mystery of the universe, and the meaning of God's world, are shrouded in hopeless obscurity, until we learn to feel that all laws suppose a lawgiver, and that all working involves a Divine energy.

    Law   Energy   Obscurity  
    Alexander Maclaren (1871). “Sermons Preached in Manchester: First series”, p.183
  • It is in those times of hopeless chaos when the sovereign hand of God is most likely to be seen.

    War   Hands   Sovereign  
  • In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.

    Race   Long   Hopeless  
    Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831).”, p.8
  • Hopeless causes are the only ones worth fighting for. The fight for the taxpayer is the most hopeless of them all.

  • We found love in a hopeless place.

    Song: We Found Love In A Hopless Place, Album: Talk That Talk
  • The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.

  • I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true; for the Cyprians whose jollity had been so extravagant and tumultuous, now sunk under a sense of their danger and wept like women. I heard nothing but the screams of terror and the wailings of hopeless distress. Some lamented the loss of pleasures that were never to return; but none had presence of mind either to undertake or direct the navigation of the menaced vessel.

  • Nothing is hopeless that is right.

  • Though opposition is a hopeless task, acquiescence would be worse.

  • One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

    Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.11, Open Road Media
  • I have fallen a hopeless victim to the Turk; he is the most charming of mortals.

  • Well, let me tell you, after three years of Obama, we are hopeless and changeless, and we need Mitt Romney to bring us back, to bring America back.

    Years   America   Three  
    "In Iowa, Candidates Make Closing Arguments". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. December 30, 2011.
  • In a last violent protest against the hopelessness of imminent death, I sensed my spirit piercing through the enveloping gloom. I felt it transcend that hopeless, meaningless world, and from somewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of an ultimate purpose. At that moment a light was lit in a distant farmhouse, which stood on the horizon as if painted there, in the midst of the miserable gray of a dawning morning in Bavaria. "Et lux in tenebris lucet"-and the light shineth in the darkness.

    Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.37, Beacon Press
  • Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

    Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.40, Macmillan
  • I'm neither left or right. I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen.

    Home   Littles   Tonight  
    Song: Democracy
  • Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

  • The east is not for me--the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes.

    Spiritual   Eye   People  
    D.H Lawrence (1995). “The Sayings of D. H. Lawrence”, p.43, Gerald Duckworth & Co
  • When women are pessimistic about their political strength and feel hopeless about changing the conditions of their lives, it is almost as if they do not believe that democracy means the country belongs to them. But it's true.

    Country   Women   Believe  
  • She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants than others seemed to feel – that she had to endure this wide hopeless yearning for that something, whatever it was, that was greatest and best on this earth.

    Hardship   Earth   Want  
    George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.331, George Eliot
  • The crystal ball has a question mark in its center. There are some fundamental choices to be made. We will either choose to continue to wage a hopeless war to preserve the existing architecture for copyright by upping the stakes and using better weapons to make sure that people respect it. If we do this, public support for copyright will continue to weaken, pushing creativity underground and producing a generation that is alienated from the copyright concept.

    War   Creativity   People  
    WIPO Magazine Interview, www.wipo.int. February, 2011.
  • God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.

    Memories   Son   Past  
    Aldous Huxley, Huxley trusts and heirs (2013). “The Genius and the Goddess: A Novel”, p.12, Harper Collins
  • Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

    'The Idler' no. 58 (26 May 1759)
  • I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach

    Grief   Men   Air  
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.80
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